In 1941, Government agents seized Ewan Yoshida's father. He was never seen again. In this final part of our three part episode on FDR and the decision to intern the Japanese in WWII, we review the consequences of the internment decision for the people sent to the camps, and why Roosevelt made the decision in the first place. 

This episode uses the following archival sound files:

“Goodbye, Mama, I’m Off to Yokohama” (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyOoJhqEzas

Office of War Relocation explains the Internment, narrated by OWR director Milton Eisenhower (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rk3RP5KQs

Testimony by Martha Okamoto, Kuniko Okumura Sato, Teru Watanabe, Masaharu Tanibata, Ewan Yoshida, Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians testimony (1981)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTG6om6l0w&t=118s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdtqHokzEC0

Josh White and his Carolinians, “Trouble” (1940) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUdmP1T97iA

Carson Robinson, “Remember Pearl Harbor” (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKnkWvSJA4

Eddy Howard and His Orchestra, “Remember Pearl Harbor” (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJMnhJsZvE

Sumiko Seki, testimony before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nca5BhM1XUc

Richard E. Yamashiro, “Witnessing the Manzanar Riot” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCDcGE-KTI

Jim Tanimoto, “Internment – Time of Remembrance” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hd_ADvIZ7k

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